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Re: Project Cascade vs Oracle 8i vs Samba?

From: Wayne R. Vincent <wrvincent_at_snet.net>
Date: 1998/09/12
Message-ID: <35FB2167.FB0@snet.net>#1/1

Sun's Cascade product is far from vaporware and is currently being benchmarked in effort to generate a sizing matrix. The sizing matrix will give a rough estimate of how many NT servers can be consolidated into a single, scalable UNIX server.

        As far as inheriting problems or proprietary, Cascade is built from MicroSoft's defacto NT standards. And NT 5.0... let's talk about vaporware... 35 million lines of it! But yes, NT 5.0 WILL be supported.

        And UNIX permissions? - Why would a Better NT Server relax it's security for UNIX users to access files behind the sheets?

        I hope you're not a software developer for the Samba Team. Ashame to think you get ALL of the details wrong.

IMHO ;-) Ciao
Wayne

Jeremy Allison wrote:
>
> Well "project Cascade" right now is actually vaporware,
> as the announcements state "early access copies will be
> available within 60 days" - so I'd imagine a source code
> tape from AS/U just landed on some poor Sun engineer's desk :-).
>
> When they've finished it will have all the advantages (and
> disadvantages) of AS/U however - it will be for all intents
> and purposes a full PDC or BDC implementation. The downside
> is - tied to Microsoft code, no future NT5.x access (see the news
> reports on the AT&T AS/U lawsuit), client license fees, no
> source code etc. etc.
>
> Also, as all the filesystem meta-info with AS/U is kept in
> a spare database there will be integrartion issues (no
> integration with UNIX permissions) and (just as a guess)
> it will be *dog* slow :-).
  Received on Sat Sep 12 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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